In article <3883471c$1 at runswick.octacon.co.uk>, "Paul Sampson"
<paul.sampson at zztradezone.co.uk> wrote:
>Adrian Ian Skilling wrote in message <85v35b$5nn$1 at trog.dera.gov.uk>...
>>>> but i think it is worth mentioning that we are constricted by the
>>> language
>>> we choose to express ourselves. This has a great effect on our entire
>>> mental
>>> development. It is harder to quantify feelings or ideas which no word
>>> exists
>>> for, or adequately describe all types of love with the word. This
>>> applies to
>>> animals too, except their language communication is not an oral
>>> language.
>>> Sorry. I don't mean to be offensive. But surely its obvious that it is
>> hard to express a concept or emotion that we don't have a word for. How
>> could it be any other way !!
>>That's odd. I don't have a word for - and afaik *english* doesn't have a
>word for - the left testicle of an orang-utan born on any sunday in an
>odd numbered year of the fifteenth century BCE. So I suppose I'm unable
>to express such a concept. Oh dear. That's that then. Rats.
>>
Ah! But we can invent a word for it, if we have to. :-)
Getting everybody to agree in the word's definition is
something else.